TODDLER TACTICS

How to make magic from mayhem

by PINKY McKAY

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New softcover book, 318 pages. Published 2008.

Do you automatically cut toast into fingers?
Appreciate finger painting as much as fine art?
Hear 'no' a million times a day?

If the answer is yes, then Toddler Tactics is for you. Being the parent of a toddler can be exciting, inspiring and exhausting - all at once! Your adorable little baby has now become a moving, grooving tot with attitude, and it will take all your patience and skill to deal with these changes. Parenting expert Pinky McKay explains what to do at each stage of development and offers fuss0free advice on:

• communicating with your toddler
• discipline and good manners
• good eating habits
• routines for play and sleep
• toilet training
• family dynamics

Toddler Tactics is bursting with practical strategies for making the toddler years the exhilarating experience they should be.

About the Author

Pinky McKay is a Melbourne-based writer specialising in health, education and family issues. An International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and certified infant massage instructor, she is the author of 100 Ways to Calm the Crying and Sleeping Like a Baby and is a popular contributor to various national parenting publications and websites including Practical Parenting, Mother and Baby, Natural Parenting, Bellybelly and Motherinc. Her latest book is Parenting by Heart - click here for more information

Pinky is the mother of four young adults and a 'bonus baby' (the baby you have when your other kids can run their own baths, tie their own shoelaces and even drive their own cars!). She has seen it all from both sides of the episiotomy and knows first-hand that parents need to laugh, or some days they'd cry.

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Toddler Tactics by Pinky McKay